Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Anchorage, [LSD].

Callsign: NKZI (     )

Builder: General Dynamics, Quincy, USA.
Launch date: 11 July 1970.
Commission date: 27 March 1971.
Decommission date: 3 September 1999.

Displacement ( tons ): 8500 light, 14200 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 169 x 26 x 6.
Main machinery: 2 x De Laval geared turbines ( 24000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 21.
Complement: 358 ( 18 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 6 GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm; 2 x 1 25mm Mk38 Bushmaster.

Boats and LCC: 2 -3 x LCAC.
Marines: 450.
Radars: Air: AN/SPS-40; Surface: AN/SPS-10; Navigation: LN-66; TACAN: AN/URN-25.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x SRBOC Mk36; ESM: AN/SLQ-32
Comment: Sold to Taiwan, and renamed Hsu Hai ( LSD-193 ).

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1995